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THE G A R D E N M AGAZINE 



March, 19 18 



There's Witchery in a 

 Water Garden 



A spirit of witchery hovers over a pool, 

 with its clear water, its fragrant flowers, 

 its flashing fish. Water Lilies and water 

 plants are so easy^ to grow, and so beauti- 

 ful, that they should be made a part of 

 even the simplest plan. 



My new and rare hardy Nymphaeas will be 

 valuable adjunct to your garden. Attraction, 

 with its huge flowers of garnet-red, white and ma- 

 hogany, Escarboucle, a free-blooming sort with 

 striking vermilion flowers, Paul Hariot, large 

 flowers of clear yellow and red, and Vesuve 

 v dark amaranth-rose, are some of the best, 

 although there are a multitude of others. 



'"'" "Water Lilies and Water Plants" 



(my 1918 Catalogue) shows many rare Nymphaeas 



in all their natural colors, with other handsome water 



. plants. In addition to giving full information about 



• v different varieties of water plants, it tells how to plan 



\ and make the garden itself. Send for a free copy. 



WILLIAM TRICKER, Water Lily Specialist 

 Box E Arlington, New Jersey 



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HODGSON Bird Houses 



Do the memories of bird houses built in boyhood days make 

 you wish for one now ? 



Let a Hodgson Bird House fulfil this wish and bring joy to 

 your heart, an artistic touch to your grounds. Hodgson Bird 

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Can Any One Beat This? 



Forty Pounds of First Class Potatoes from 

 One Seven Ounce Tubei 



LJOW many times can a given weight of 

 "potato seed" multiply itself in a single 

 growing season? This is always an interest- 

 ing question to farmers and gardeners and 

 most growers are thoroughly pleased and satis- 

 fied with a yield of twelve to one or fifteen to 

 one; twenty-five or thirty to one is unusual; 

 and the yield indicated above is not obtained 

 by ordinary field methods as practised by 

 growers even where the most fertile soil is used 

 and thorough spraying is given. I was not 

 favored by either of these important factors 

 in securing the somewhat remarkable yield 

 °f 452 pounds of potatoes consisting of 40 

 pounds of good edible size and 5^ pounds of 

 culls from 7 ounces of seed. It is confidently 

 expected that in this coming season of 1918 

 with better fertilization and more thorough 

 spraying a yield of 100 to 1 or better can be 

 secured. But the reader will ask, if the 

 high yield was not due to either fertile soil or 

 good culture what then was the main con- 



Making the potato work to its utmost. 40 lbs. crop 

 harvested from 7 oz. seed 



trolling factor? The answer is, briefly, inten- 

 sive methods of propagation. 



Last April when potatoes were so scarce and 

 high priced that it is claimed some people 

 locked them up in the vault with their jewelry, 

 I decided to sacrifice one tuber of my scant 

 stock in a special experiment to see what it 

 could be made to produce. I selected one 

 average appearing potato and ascertained its 

 weight to be just seven ounces. I then cut 

 it in two lengthwise and placed each half cut 

 side downward in sand on the propagating 

 bench of a greenhouse, allowing the tops of 

 the two pieces to just show above the sand. 

 An ordinary hotbed would have served the 

 same purpose. In a short time the eyes began 

 to throw up shoots and when these were about 

 a half inch long they were broken off using the 

 thumb and forefinger, taking care to secure 

 the little cluster of roots at the base of each. 



As soon as the first crop of rooted shoots 

 was removed other shoots quickly developed 

 from these same eyes, and as these attained 

 a length of a half inch to an inch they were 

 taken ofF. This process was continued as 

 long as new shoots kept showing. In all 

 40 plantlets were secured. These little plant- 

 lets were potted up into 3^ inch square 



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